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FFlllCllt CHARLES F. HEINRIOHS, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO lVILLIAM F. VIDMAYER, OF SAME PLACE.

ELECTRIC BATTERY.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 396,871, dated January 29, 18489. Application filed April 14, 1888. Serial No. 270,626. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern: electrodes and acts as a porous diaphragm Be it known that I, CHARLES F. HEINRICHS, when the battery is tipped in the position for of N ew York, in the county of New York and use, as in Figs. l and 2. lVhen, however, the State oit' New York,have invented a new and battery istipped in the other direction, as 55 useful Improvement in Electric Batteries; shown in Fig. El, the porous part oi' the partiand I do hereby declare that the followingl is a tion is on the upper side and the non-porous t'ull, clear, and exact description ot' the same. part is down and the two tluids are entirely My invention relates to so-called tipbat seliarated, and the electrodes are also out of teries. In batteries of this kind two electhe liquids.

1o trodes and oneluid have only been employed, For the purpose of maintaining an equal and the electrodes are withdrawn from the level between the two fluids in the battery one iluid by merely tipping' or turning the when it is in position for work, I connectwith battery from the position in use into another the partition p an extensible compartment, position, when the elcctrmlcs do not further which is located in one of the divisions of the I5 dip in the fluid. battery and is in communication with the The presentinvention has tor its object the other. The Vform in which I have embodied employment ot' two Huids and a porous diathis invention is shown in the figures. The

phragm arranged in such a manner that the porous part of the wall p has a cylindrical two fluids are separated t'rom each other and iiange around an opening in the wall. Upon 7o zo the porous part of the diaphragm when the this flange is connected the mouth of a nonbattery is tipped and out of use. porous iiexible or extensible pouch, e, so that A further object is the maintenance ot a the liquid f in one compartment can pass common level betweenthe several fluids lwhen through the wall into the other compartment the battery is in use. containing` the liquid f2, but is excluded from 25 The iiiVi-mtion is illustrated in the accommixing with that liquid bythe non-porous panying,l ijlrawing's, in which pouch in which it is contained. This pouch Figure l represents a transverse section ot' is extended by the pressure of the liquid the battery, taken through the supportingtherein; but its amount is limited by the hytrunnions. Fig. 2 is a similar section taken drostatic pressure ot' the liquid f2, so that the 8o 3o at right angles to the first, both these figures liquid in both compartments will be main showing;` the batteryin workinlfiosition. Fig. tained at the same level. 3 is a section similar to Fig. 2, but showing I do not limit myself t-o the precise form of the battery in a position out ot' action. l the extensible pouch, the essential feature ot' The figures show a receptacle composed of this part oi' the invention being a eompart- 85 35 two glass shells or cell-inclosures, y and g, ment supplementary to the two main comprovided lwith trunnions yr, and flanges by partnients connected to one and adapted to whichtheyare connected to eachother. They receive the liquid therefrom and equal the are rabbeted at their meeting surfaces to relevel in both. The compartments of the batceive a `groo'ved rubber ring', n, which is tery have holes at w for the introduction of 9o 4o clamped between them when they are bolted the Viiuids, and the trunnions r U turn in suit together. The -groove in this ring iits upon a able standards, as shown. partitionplatc, p, and all these parts are held It will be apparent that a plurality of comin place bythe screws d. This forms a double partments and :fluids with suitable electrodes cell, of which. one cell contains the zinc and in any number may be made on the saine 45 the fluid f2, while the othercontains the carprinciple.

bon (l and the tluidj". One halt ot' the parti- I do not herein claim, broadly, the supple tion-plate p, or a little less than one half, is mental or an expansible pouch or compare made porous, as shown in dotted lines, and ment, as that is claimed in a pending applithe other and larger part (marked p) is made cation iiled April li, i888, Serial No. 270,625. roo

5o non-porous. The plate is arranged in the cell I claim as my inventionso that the porous part stands between the l. lnatipping battery, and in combination,

5 of the partition, all substantially as described.

2. Ina tipping battery having' a partition, j), partly porous and partly non-porous, an opening' in the non-porous part with an' extensible non-porous pouch connected there* 1o with, all in the described relation to the electrodes and substantially as set forth.

In an electric tip-battery7 the combinan tion of the double cell-inclosures, the two fluids with a partition-plate partly porous and 15 partly non-porous, and the -flexible packing'- ring, all arranged substantially as described.

4. In an electric tip-battery, the combination of the two cell-inclosnres g and g', the grooved packing-ring u, the partition-plate p being partly porous and partly non-porous, with the iiuids f and f2, and the two electrodes C and e', all substantially as described.

5. In an electric tip-battery, a partitionplate being' partly porous and partly nonporous, and a supplemental non-porous expansion-chamber connected to an opening,` in the parti ti on-plate, all substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed iny naine to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES F. HEINRICHS. lllitnesses:

ROBERT W. ANDLER, WILLIAM E. RUDIsoHHAUsER. 

